top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-10-28

Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation#Outcome

5 years ago

889 upvotes – 390 comments

Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself

https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/woman-accused-of-impersonating-prosecutor-dropping-criminal-charges-against-herself/article_1fdb1551-147d-53dd-ad45-6680bfc556fa.html?block_id=897573

5 years ago

534 upvotes – 311 comments

A Theory of Software Architecture

https://danuker.go.ro/the-grand-unified-theory-of-software-architecture.html

5 years ago

507 upvotes – 241 comments

AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16202/amd-reveals-the-radeon-rx-6000-series-rdna2-starts-at-the-highend-coming-november-18th

5 years ago

462 upvotes – 413 comments

Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-congress-insight/spy-agency-ducks-questions-about-back-doors-in-tech-products-idUSKBN27D1CS

5 years ago

453 upvotes – 262 comments

That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12956509

5 years ago

436 upvotes – 155 comments

On Abandoning the X Server

https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html

5 years ago

400 upvotes – 408 comments

Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica, 1961

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/leonid-rogozov-appendix-1961/

5 years ago

386 upvotes – 112 comments

Stripe Climate

https://stripe.com/climate

5 years ago

384 upvotes – 224 comments

Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems [pdf]

https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/osseu2020/e0/Oct%2027_Graphical%20User%20Interface%20Using%20Flutter%20in%20Embedded%20Systems_Hidenori%20Matsubayashi.pdf

5 years ago

378 upvotes – 197 comments

I Hate Coordinate Systems

https://ihatecoordinatesystems.com/

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 95 comments

If Not SPAs, What?

https://macwright.com/2020/10/28/if-not-spas.html

5 years ago

364 upvotes – 447 comments

Ask HN: Jack-of-all-trades of HN, how do you approach job search?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24916016

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 250 comments

Ruby's Proposed STM

https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/ruby-stm/

5 years ago

293 upvotes – 100 comments

Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age

https://news.mit.edu/2020/why-learn-motivate-age-decline-1027

5 years ago

269 upvotes – 139 comments

SparkFun À La Carte

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3422

5 years ago

268 upvotes – 87 comments

Launch HN: Artifact (YC S20) – Personal podcasts with the people in your life

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24919931

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 105 comments

Pyston v2: Faster Python

https://blog.pyston.org/2020/10/28/pyston-v2-20-faster-python/

5 years ago

262 upvotes – 206 comments

Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data breach

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54692120

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 198 comments

The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don't Agree Why

https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/the-earth-is-pulsating-every-26-seconds-and-seismologists-dont-agree-why

5 years ago

245 upvotes – 103 comments
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